Melville House Books

The news hit hard earlier this week: BookCourt, a beloved Brooklyn indie bookstore that has for thirty-five years stared down the ravages of Amazon, gentrification, and other forces of darkness, will be closing its doors at the end of this month.… Read more »

These are dark days, no doubt about it. Which makes it extra nice to see cool people doing rad things for excellent organizations! Take for example Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s… Read more »

Ahoy-hoy! Another week down; another bunch of insane Trump appointees, another bouquet of oh-c’mon-now tweets, another round of casualties to 2016 (goodbye to language poet Ray DiPalma, legendary New York bookseller Robert A. Wilson,… Read more »